Hysteria’s Erin Ryan joins as co-host to talk about the wave of anti-LGBTQ and abortion laws moving through red states and the GOP’s recent string of technology fails, and Mehdi Hasan also joins to talk about new ways to help Ukraine that won’t get us into a world war.

How to Help in Ukraine

• Ukrainian Congress Committee of America: donate to humanitarian efforts
• United Help Ukraine: donate to the life-saving medical supplies to Ukraine’s front lines
• Revived Soldiers Ukraine: donate to treatment of the wounded and the provision of hospitals
• Razom for Ukraine: donate to tactical medical training and emergency response in Ukraine
• Nova Ukraine: donate to humanitarian aid for Ukraine

Support Trans Youth

• Transgender Education Network of Texas: provide emergency relief to transgender kids in Texas
• Equality Florida and Save LGBTQ: protect the rights of LGBTQ Floridians 

Show Notes

DONT SAY GAY BILL 

• NYT: States Aren’t Waiting for the Supreme Court to Tighten Abortion Laws 
• Yahoo: Disney Boss Bob Chapek Says Company Won’t Slam Florida’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ Bill Directly, But Still Committed To Inclusion 
• NYT: Texas Is the Future of Abortion in America
• CBS: Florida Governor DeSantis defends controversial “Don’t Say Gay” bill
• The Hill: Does Florida’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill violate the First Amendment?
• Texas Tribune: As Texas targets trans kids, their families scramble to find lawyers 
• NYT: Texas Court Halts Investigation of Parents Over Care for Transgender Youth
• NYT: Florida Lawmakers Vote to Ban Abortions After 15 Weeks
• NYT: Supreme Court Lets Kentucky’s Attorney General Defend Abortion Law
• Philadelphia Inquirer: 2022 is ‘poised to become the year of the most anti-LGBTQ legislation’ in the United States
• Pew Research: Deep partisan divide on whether greater acceptance of transgender people is good for society

UKRAINE WITH MEHDI HASAN 

• Business Insider: ​​Some Russian officials think invading Ukraine was ‘a mistake,’ and are ‘discouraged, frightened’ and ‘making apocalyptic forecasts’
• WSJ: How Oil Giants’ Bets on Russia, Years in the Making, Crumbled in Days
• FT: Russia’s war on Ukraine threatens a global food security crisis
• Atlantic: The Strategy That Can Defeat Putin
• Foreign Affairs: America Must Do More to Help Ukraine Fight Russia

GOP TECH WOES

• Mother Jones: Aging Senators’ Zoom With Zelensky Went About as Well as You’d Expect 
• WaPo: Senate Republicans threaten to slow efforts to fund federal agencies, deliver aid to Ukraine
• Daily Beast: Donald Trump Can’t Stop Whining About His Failing Social Media App Politico: The Emptiness Inside Donald Trump’s New Social Media Platform
• Slate: Pretty Much No One Is Using Trump’s New Social Media App (Not Even Trump) 

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